Chapter 158 – The Tomb
Except for the three who appeared as DLC, only Ria was not pregnant in the cabin yet.
Witches and demons, half-humans, half-dragons, saints, and vampires.
Yoanna and Yeren spent a week together, so I still have a month and a week left.
Now, if you spend a week with Lia, you have one month left.
With that thought in mind, I turned her head, and her blue-haired Leah came closer to me, tilting her head.
“Give me water?”
“No it’s okay.”
“Yes.”
Leah looks just like Lethe.
Except for her hair color and personality, they look identical to the extent of being identical twins.
Leah like that….
―In order for a slime to mimic, it must eat the target it wants to imitate.
Why is she in the form of Leah?
Lethe’s corpse, buried in Raham Village, must have already turned into bones.
In addition, the place where Lia, when she was a slime, unintentionally subjugated her is an unknown forest.
The distance between the forest and Raham village was considerable.
Someone had intentionally fed Lea the corpse of Lethe, and I was assuming that someone was her one-armed one.
From the moment we first met until now, we have not been able to get a clear answer from Lia, who consistently gives short answers.
No matter how many times she had already asked Lethe-related questions, Leah couldn’t understand what I was talking about.
“Does it shake a lot? Are you okay?”
“Yes.”
So I decided to check it out myself.
Inside the rocking wagon.
This morning, the destination of the wagon borrowed from a nearby village was the village of Raham.
I was thinking of digging up Lethe’s grave and checking it out.
If nothing comes out of the grave, it must be that her one-armed Ed intentionally fed Leah her corpse.
In the opposite case, I decided to give up.
Because I didn’t have much time.
Lethe and Lia are different beings.
Even if Lia ate Lethe’s corpse and impersonated her as a human, I still cherished Leah.
Whatever the truth, nothing changes.
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The dinar’s effect was great.
When I handed the coachman a heavy bag of dinars to go as quickly as possible, he immediately turned around and whipped me.
How bad it was, how pitiful the words were.
As there was no time, she could have asked Yereen or Hyeji, but she had to spend a week with Lia anyway, so she chose her carriage, but she did not know that it would arrive in a day.
“Long time no see… Should I say?”
Like that, I stood holding hands with Lia and looked at Laham Village.
The scenery here is not unfamiliar, although something tickles the heart.
But my memories of this place were hazy, as if they had been cut out.
“Hometown?”
As she slowly looked around with her ambiguous face, Lia asked her with a wink in her eyes.
Can this be called my hometown?
“I should say it’s a starting point rather than a hometown.”
“Start.”
Starting point.
That would be right
The starting point of Yurgon, the main character of the game, Pure Love Story, and the starting point of the world where Lete, the evil god, was exiled.
The evil spirits of the past must have already died, but the same time will be repeated again in a month due to the current evil spirits.
What would happen if I prevented the destruction of this world?
Is this world going to be a completely independent world, not Lethe’s place of exile?
As of now, there was no way to know that.
“Hey, maybe a traveler… Uh?”
At that time, a little boy came up to us, and after a moment of embarrassment at our appearance, he waved her arms loudly.
“Eh, Ed hyung! You’re back!”
“… What are you?”
As the kid I saw somewhere smiled and fluttered, Leah stood in front of me as if to protect me.
I couldn’t stand it and gave her a back hug, and her fresh scent tickled her nose.
The kid watched me and Leah’s actions, and then she opened her mouth, pointing her finger at herself.
“I-don’t you remember me? It’s a Bent!”
“Ben… Crack?”
Then I remembered what I heard from Hyeji.
That a kid in this town had told me my story before.
At that time, she didn’t know that it was my story, but now Hyeji said she would.
“Uh, uh. Yes, nice to meet you.”
Sorry, I couldn’t remember at all.
In the first place, most of my memories of this town had been lost.
What I remember is Lethe’s appearance and the contents right after leaving this village.
By the way,
“As expected, did you like Lethe noona?”
“… What?”
A little boy named Ventra made a nonsensical noise.
Are you suddenly talking about Lethe?
“That’s right, you look just like the older sister you’re holding right now, Lethe!”
“Ah… Is it?”
As a child growing up in this village, it wasn’t strange to remember Lethe.
But something didn’t make sense.
Because the child’s attitude gave me the feeling that it was subtly different from the way people in this world think.
“You spoke well. Do you know where Lethe’s grave is?”
I decided not to dig deep, and to think that it was just being a kid and not being self-aware.
“Of course you know. Why are you there?”
“There is something I need to check. Than that… Were we close?”
“Brother! You really don’t remember! Every time I go to my sister’s house to play, my brother stole all the sandwiches I made for him!”
Did I?
I don’t remember ever having a sandwich in this town.
Even if it’s a potato.
Anyway, if it’s enough to steal food, it’s clear that they were pretty close.
“Ah, that’s right. Your sandwich was delicious.”
“Oh really! Uh? By the way, bro. Are you good at talking now? I was very weak at the time….”
“Men and horses. Years have passed, of course.”
It was a kid who couldn’t remember, but it seems that there was a relationship.
I rummaged through my pockets, grabbed a large handful of dinars, and stuffed them into the boy’s old cloth pocket.
“It’s the price of a sandwich. Stop wandering around and study with it.”
“Hey, how much is all this! Brother!”
The little boy with a tear-dropping smile jumped around and made a fuss.
There is no such thing as a golden return.
We were pretty close, so I just gave you this amount of pocket money.
Than that….
“So, where is Lethe’s grave?”
“It’s on the back mountain. Did you forget? It’s still there, bro.”
“You bastard, dinar seizure.”
When I stretched out his arms playfully with the attitude of a sweet little boy, he snarled and quickly teased his feet.
“That’s right—Brother! Lethe’s sister’s house is at the western end of town! Remember!?”
Then he screams loudly and runs away in an instant.
“It’s all so fast.”
It felt like I was playing with my nephew who had a big age difference.
Of course, I had no family, let alone nephews, so I can only speculate.
“Lethe.”
“Yes?”
While taking Lia to the mountain behind her, she murmured.
“Ed, friend.”
“Okay. I asked.”
“Yes.”
I wondered if she was trying to tell me something, so I answered, but her curiosity was still unanswered.
Well, it wasn’t what I was expecting anyway.
It’s not something humans would do, but if you dig up Lethe’s grave, you might find out something.
The kid didn’t tell me the exact location, but this was the only place in the village that could be called the back mountain.
If you go up along the road made of grasses thanks to people passing by, you will see a place that can be called a grave like this.
“Is it a cemetery?”
The fact that the road to this place was made vaguely proved that it was not uncommon.
Of course, she probably wasn’t looking for Lethe, but she must have been looking for another grave.
From tombs with tombstones to tombs with names engraved on old wooden boards, I looked through them one by one.
I found Lethe’s grave around the time I looked around the 20th tomb.
[Lethe]
A small tomb behind a name engraved on a wooden board.
The evil spirits of the exiled past lay dormant here.
“Um….”
How to say
There was no excitement whatsoever.
If I were to talk about my impressions, should I say it is the feeling of standing in front of the grave of someone else who has nothing to do with me?
But Leah was a subtle reaction.
“Lethe.”
I read the name while sweeping the board with dry grass and dust clinging to it with my hand.
“Ed, friend.”
“Okay. You must have been friends.”
And he must have been someone I liked before he lost his memory.
Now, she had no intention of retrieving that memory.
But she had a little bit of sympathy.
An evil god who fell in love with a hero named Ed.
There was no way her love would come true.
Destiny was paired with Yurgon, a fake hero of some kind, and he died in a disgraceful way.
Even if she survives, it is only for the future that Ashte, who eventually became an evil god, will destroy the world.
Lethe, exiled to this world, must have repeated it countless times.
If I don’t use the pieces, it will be repeated again.
I couldn’t recall your memories or appearance.
Even if I think about it now, it will be too late now that you are already dead.
At least I’ll block Ashte so you can rest in peace.
“So….”
I hope you understand what I’m about to do.
-Seureung.
I took out a holy sword instead of a shovel and stretched it out toward the grave.
Are you really sleeping here?
Then why does Lia have four faces?
Even if the answer didn’t come out, at least, I hoped that there was value in my actions.
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In the end, I dug up all of Lethe’s graves.
If others see me, they will most likely see me as a grave robber or a madman.
Destroying graves was not something humans would do, either here or on the planet I lived on.
So the result came out.
“What’s this.”
The result I thought was one of two things.
With bones or nothing.
But both are wrong.
What was buried in Lethe’s tomb was paper, not bones.
… I unfolded the yellowed paper.
